Summary:VLDBs require special handling for functions often taken for granted in smaller databases. Input may be millions of rows rather than a few; building indexes can take hours instead of minutes; query times can be minutes instead of seconds. Listen to Lewis Cunningham, an experienced Oracle DBA, as he describes the Partitioning Option of Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition, how it can help you manage multi-terabyte databases, and how it solved critical response time issues in two real-world scenarios.